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Jun 4 8 tweets 4 min read
#Now back in CWB again a few hours after the early morning stroll around Victoria Park. Parts of the busy East Point Rd and Great George St are blocked by police with dozens of officers guarding the roads. Journos are asked to stay on pedestrian and reg with police.
A yellow-clad woman trying to handout white papers to passengers is now under search by the police. Reporters are kept around 5 meters from the group, behind two plastic tapes to keep a path on pavement.
A man in black T-shirt and wearing glasses was just now taken into a police van and driven away. Didn’t see what happened and police on site declined to tell.
#NOW a man in black with a white chrysanthemum standing in his backpack is under search by police.
Released after search the man said police warned him not to do anything to attract people to gather. He criticised police of infringing his individual freedom as he had not done anything illegal other than passing by with a white chrysanthemum.
After men in black, a man in white is now under search.
The man in white tee said police didn’t point out anything suspicious on him during a stop and search but an officer warned if he continued to talk so loudly he would be arrested. The man said the vigil was very meaningful to him. “HKers shall not be silenced.”
Follow further developments in Causeway Bay from my colleague @holmeschan_

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May 12
What have #612Fund done to “collude with foreign forces”? State-associated Ta Kung Pao gave a list of six “evidence” today.

* before #NSL the fund was already suspected of colluding with foreign forces including funding local anti-China forces to ask for foreign sanctions
* during “black-clad violence”, it funded the Hong Kong Higher Institutions International Affairs Delegation to smear HK in London and Geneva. At a meeting with UK parliamentary members in Sep 2019, the delegation urged UK parliament to sanction HK officials.
* between 2019 and 2020, the fund provided legal and medical support for HKers in Canada and for Taiwan NGOs. It can be reasonably believed to be funding rioters who had fled there.
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May 10
#FACTCHECK On May 8, after #JohnLee was declared HK’s next leader with 1,416 supporting votes from the election committee, he said in his victory speech “today…is also the World Smile Day established by the International Committee of the Red Cross”. However…
…in response to enquiry about the day, @ICRC said “On May 8, we celebrate the Word Red Cross Red Crescent day. This date is the anniversary of the birth of Henry Dunant (born on 8 May 1828)”, founder of the ICRC.

So ICRC did not establish May 8 as the World Smile Day.
A search w/the key words “World Smile Day” “May 8” - in Chinese or English - will lead to reports by China’s state media saying that the May 8 World Smile Day was established by a “World Mental Health Organisation” 世界精神衛生組織, an org I am yet to find any official info.
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Apr 29
Reasons for the unprecedented aggravation of sentence in an #NSL trial handed down this morning : legalref.judiciary.hk/lrs/common/ju/…

In her further reasons on overturning her original 3yrs8mths sentence and boosting it to 5yrs, Judge Woodcock did not explain...
...what is the new starting point (it was 5.5 yrs originally) and what is the discount the defendant Lui Sai-yu can enjoy from his guilty plea at the earliest opportunity (1/3 usually and originally).

If Lui still enjoys 1/3 discount, to reach a final sentence of 5yrs demands..
...a starting point of 7.5 years, which is beyond the District Court's sentencing cap on 7 years.

If Lui cannot enjoy fully the 1/3 discount, what factor other than the minimum sentence requirement in #NSL can justify that?
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#TWIST After Judge Woodcock handed down the sentence of 3 yrs 8 mths., #NSL prosecutor Ivan Cheung rised and said since the court found Lui's offence in "serious nature", #NSL demands a sentence between 5 to 10 years, not just a sentence starting in this range. Adjournment now.
DOJ's #NSL prosecutor Ivan Cheung argued that when Beijing made #NSL the NPCSC has taken into full account of HK's criminal laws therefore when a min sentence was set, discounts due to various reasons had been considered, and a discounted sentence should not fall below the min.
Defense counsel Edwin Choy said the starting point of 5.5 yrs has reflected the court's determination of the offense's seriousness. The offense, though found serious, is not as serious as one deserving a starting point of 7.5 years, which is also beyond the court's sentencing cap
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#NOW HKU @HKUniversity is covering up the June 4 slogan on Swire Bridge - slightly over one month after they toppled the #PillarofShame
Today is 28 Dec in lunar calendar, a day for people to thoroughly tidy up their home in order to welcome CNY. The erasure of the June 4 slogan on Swire Bridge means the last piece of June 4 monument in #HKU will be gone.
Last time #HKU took down #PillarofShame in the darkness of night leaving some half hundred reporters staying up till dawn . This time it’s happening in broad day light and fewer than 10 reporters are now at the scene.
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Ten months after the striking four-day marathon bail hearing of 47 pro-dems charged of “conspiracy to subversion” last March, West Kowloon Court today is again running extraordinarily late - from 10.30am to just now - on a side hearing branched from the same case.
Acting chief magistrate Peter Law abruptly adjourned the case after everyone returned to court at 9pm-ish in light of a hour-long dinner break he ordered (tho no dine-in is allowed in the city), as some defendants on remand complained about being given only few pieces of biscuits
There was a brief cross-fire between some defendants and Magistrate Law over the biscuit dinner, an episode which both the leading NSL prosecutor Anthony Chau and Magistrate Peter Law warned that reporters shall bear their own risk if they report.
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